“Oh, eh, oh!”
Copyright (c) miniGandalf, 2008

can bring money for 70 years after my death to my relatives (oh, nice!), but a technical invention like 3D screen can me bring money (and will be protected) only for 20 years.

Copyright law is intended to protect a special art of mental work, and not with the interest of the man kind. Is is simple not appropriate for the new technologies.

lol @ scotland, youve been ruled by us (after having your arse kicked) for 300 glorious years.
we give you lot everything free cos you aint got any jobs roflmao!

They allow it because its not the same thing. This is a straw man, they should be asking:

If you had a machine that could make an exact copy of a company car would you allow employees to make a copy and take it home?

Its a totally different question.

http://www.demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html

TorrentFreak posted another interesting article on “The Federation”
Here’s a Snippet:
The UK’s Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has launched the third phase of ‘Operation Tracker’, an initiative to monitor people using B…

This story has been submitted to Stirrdup. Your support can help it become hot….

Why not go out their and create a company that allows people to distribute it’s software through BT and come up with a new model of making money?

Btw, sorry to those people in the minority who are proactive and are doing something, good luck to you.

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They aren’t cops – did you read the article?

In a recent software audit of 2,500 PCs at a UK financial institution FAST discovered over 5,800 illegal digital music files.
Most of these files were illegally downloaded by people in the IT department – those normally tasked with combating the problem.

Bit of an uphill struggle then?

ZOMG!!!!!

klingons have starship enterprise shaped penis heads, now isn’t that ironic?

don’t ya think?

An interesting read is on the website of Janis Ian (who doesn’t remember the beautiful song ‘At Seventeen’):

“The premise of all this ballyhoo is that the industry (and its artists) are being harmed by free downloading. Nonsense.

Let’s take it from my personal experience. My site http://www.janisian.com ) gets an average of 75,000 hits a year. Not bad for someone whose last hit record was in 1975. When Napster was running full-tilt, we received about 100 hits a month from people who’d downloaded Society’s Child or At Seventeen for free, then decided they wanted more information. Of those 100 people (and these are only the ones who let us know how they’d found the site), 15 bought CDs. Not huge sales, right? No record company is interested in 180 extra sales a year. But… that translates into $2700, which is a lot of money in my book. And that doesn’t include the ones who bought the CDs in stores, or who came to my shows.”

You can read the rest of the article at: http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

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This, from the country that brought us stinky judges in fancy wigs.

A) Nice typos. Buy some bloatware spellcheck, already.

B) Oh, snap! Your product (Software “A”) is in the wild and someone brought their copy of it to work so they could get their job done w/o banging heads against a corporate wall. Terror!

It feels better that way.

This is a viewpoint that I can agree with and why I am not against fighting commercial pirates. The main problem however lies in the way that corporations, who are most often not even the original creators but only licensees, have lobbied (bribed) politicians and subverted the original idea behind copyright law.

A point in case is Mickey Mouse (TM) (C) who’s copyright was about to end. Disney lobbied the political whores in Congress with as final result ‘The Copyright Term Extension Act’ (CTEA) of 1998 , alternatively known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or pejoratively as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. It extended copyright terms in the United States by 20 years. Before the Act (under the Copyright Act of 1976), copyright would last for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship; the Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.

This is clearly ridiculous and surely not a temporarily monopoly. When the law is obviously unjust, made for and by the rich, should people obey it then? The corporate criminals are the ones who fit the profile of a thief and pirates because of their legalized crime of robbing society of fair use and public domain.

“A 10% drop in piracy would create 40,000 new jobs and add £6 billion to UK GDP.
BSA/IDC piracy report 2004″
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I pirate stuff that I wouldn’t purchase in the first place. Stuff that I buy, I don’t pirate.

How come they can’t understand this shit? They must be retarded or something.

so they now have to work out how to stop the people who do this, as these are usually the people who get higher up in the chain so to speak…

founded in 1984 – nuff said

I hope they’re hacked the way MediaDefender was

I thought the exact same thing!

1) Those who earn a wage and are willing to pay a FAIR price for material that is of a high quality. The recent distribution method used for the Radiohead album show’s that there is a huge market that are willing to pay for material they believe is quality.
The problem these people currently have is there are limited legal ways in which they can gain access to the media they require, due to region issues, distribution issues, etc. ITunes showed the world that if you create a legal model which is fairly priced then you can create a legal model out of media distribution.
Releasing tv shows or movies at different times in different regions is one of the reasons people download, along with the ease of access and speed of delivery/availability.

2) Children and idiots that believe that everything that is created should be FREE, no matter the quality of the finished product. People who, even if given the option to purchase a legal license at a severely discounted rate and in the format they require, would much prefer to steal.

The Piracy standpoint has highlighted a number of issues with the media industry, mainly that of the continueing degradation of material that is continouslly being thrust down consumers throats at ridiculous prices. However, pirates or not, civilised people cannot go around shouting obscenities at people due to a difference in beliefs or understandings…. that’s something that has caused a lot of problems in the past, be it religious, political, sexual, etc. The job of the filesharing community is to educate the media industry and point them in the direction of a model which is fair for all parties, a job which has been virtually accomplished with the music industry.
If there were no copyrights, people would not be able to make a living from creating the media that individuals rely on to entertain there lives.

Sounds like the same tactics as Scientology!

I think the point is they like to refer to themselves as THE Federation a little too much. Like thier “Join Us” page (read: “come to the dark side”?)

http://www.fast.org.uk/joinus.asp